Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 20,361, Ebenezer Fessenden, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Continental Mass
Fessenden, Ebenezer
S 20361
Carded.
CONTENTS

10322
Maine
Ebenezer Fessenden
of the State of Maine who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded by Col Gardner in the [blank] line for 10 [blank], Mass. & Continental
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd day of April 1833 and sent to Bryce [blank]
Arrears to the 4th of Jan 1833 $66.66 Semi-annual allowance ending 2 Sept " 16.66 $83.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J H [blank] Clerk Book [blank] Vol. 125 Page 15

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, County of Oxford.
On this twentieth day of July A.D. 1818, before me the subscriber Judge of the Court of Probate in said County and first associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth, personally appeared Ebenezer Fesperden aged sixty nine years a resident of Fryeburg in said County who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war." That he the said Ebenezer Fesperden enlisted in Massachusetts in May A.D. 1775, with the company of Captain Abner Croot for eight months and when he had served out said eight months immediately without leaving the Army, or other before said eight months were fully out he again enlisted into the same company which belonged to Col. Gardner's Regiment till he fell in the battle of Bunker Hill and was then commanded by Col. Bond in Massachusetts line for one year, that he served in said company till the next March, making about eleven months, - when he hired a man to take his place, that the substitute was received and he dismissed - and in addition, Robert Andrews a credible witness deposes before Enoch Pease, Esq. a Magistrate duly qualified to take said deposition that he was personally acquainted with said Fesperden and knew him to be a soldier as he has stated from sometime in January 1776 to March A.D. 1776, when the British Army vacated Boston and that said Fesperden then hired a man by the name of Ezra Stetson to take his place and Stetson took it and Fesperden was discharged - and Joshua Young, Esq. a credible witness has deposed before me, that said Fesperden in May or June A.D. 1775 enlisted into Captain Croot's company of said regiment and served out said term, and he was a near neighbor and understood that as soon, or before the eight months service was completed he again enlisted into the same company for a year, and served several months of the year's service, that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in

2/ need of assistance of his country for support, that he has no other evidence in his power of his said services, I swear to and declare before me the day and year aforesaid. Judah Dana, Judge &c.
I Judah Dana Judge &c. aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Ebenezer Davenport did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration for the term of nine months against the common enemy in the continental establishment, that he is reduced in his circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his country for support, and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Hon. Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Poughkeepsie this tenth day of November A.D. 1818. Judah Dana Judge &c.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Ex parte of the subscriber, Register of the Court of Probate in said County do at Poughkeepsie in said County on this tenth day of November A.D. 1818, certify and make known that the Hon. Judah Dana who signed the foregoing certificate &c. is Judge of said Court of Probate and is first associate justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth and that said instrument is under the seal of said Court of Probate. Attest, Sim o Osgood Register of Probate.

I hereby certify that the foregoing pages, numbered one and two, are truly copied from the original document on file in the Pension Office of the War Department.
James L. Edwards Pension Office, Sept. 15. 1828.

Ebenezer Tappenden
1899
$33.33 per Ann
N. Frye, Jr.
Present

STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF Oxford ss.
ON this seventh day of August A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate now sitting, Ebenezer Hapgood a resident of Fryeburg in the county of Oxford and State of Maine, aged 75 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That, at Cambridge in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the month of May, A.D. 1775, he enlisted as a private soldier into Capt. Abner Grafton's Company, Col. Gardner's Regiment, for the term of eight months. That he served the whole of said eight months, in said Cambridge, in the Company aforesaid; and the principal employment of said Company was in making cartridges for small arms. That upon the expiration of said term of service, he again enlisted as a private soldier into the same Company, at said Cambridge for the term of one year; that he served in said Company, employed principally as aforesaid until the American Forces were ordered off, which he believing was in the month of March A.D. 1776 - at which time he hired a substitute by the name of Ezra Stiles, & left the service; that the said Col. Gardner was wounded in the battle of Bunker Hill, & died in a few days after - that Lieut. Col. Bond then took command of said Regiment.
And in answer to the several interrogatories propounded by the Court, the said applicant says, that he was born at said Cambridge on the 10th Feb. A.D. 1757. That he has a record of his age in his family Bible, that he was living at said Cambridge when he entered said service, and removed thence in Nov. 1777, to the town of Fryeburg above mentioned, where he has lived ever since. That when he left said service no written discharge was given. He has none, that his service was by voluntary enlistment.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Stephen Emery, Judge
Ebenezer Hapgood

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. said applicant having adduced the deposition of Joshua Gamage, on oath duly administered, in corroboration of his own declaration. Said applicant & said witness sustain a fair reputation for truth & veracity.
Stephen Emery, Judge
I Joseph G. Cole Register Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Elizer Fenden for a pension.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this seventh day of August A. D. 1832.
CLERK.
Joseph G. Cole Register

I hereby certify that I have known the within named Grenander for more than thirty years and that he is universally reputed to be a man of truth and a revolutionary soldier Ethel Judson Dorce

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March 10, 1925
Mrs. Minnie Abbott Mair The Abbott Old Orchard, Maine.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 20361 it appears that Ebenezer Fessenden was born February 10, 1757 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
While a resident of his native town he enlisted in May 1775 and served until March 1776 as a private in Captain Abner Crafts' Company, Colonels Gardiner and Bond's Massachusetts Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 7, 1832 while living in Fryeburg, Oxford County, Maine, where he had lived since November 1777.
There is no data on file as to his family.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possibly the

date of his death, you should apply to the Pension Section, Civil Division, General Accounting Office, 1800 E Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. citing all of the following data: "Ebenezer Fessenden, Certificate No. 10322, issued April 2, 1833, rate $ 33.33 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Maine Agency".
Respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.

20361 INVALID.
1925-Mch. 10-Heir. to Mrs. Niemie Q. Mait. MMNF.
File No. 20361
Ebenezer Haddenden
Mrs. Mary Haddenden
Act: June 7 th 1891
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 134
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I Joshua Gamage of lawful age, an oath do here and say that I have ever been well acquainted Ebenezer Trenchard of Fryeburg in the County of Oxford in the state of Maine, that he & I were born and brought up together in the town of Cambridge in the County of Middlesex in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and both removed from that place to said Fryeburg about the same time - and we have lived near to each other ever since - and I know him to be a man of truth and veracity and I have heard his declaration, this day made before the Probate Court at Fryeburg, stating his services as a revolutionary soldier - and know the facts therein to be true, as he has stated them -
Joshua Gamage
State of Maine.
Oxford ss Augt - 7 - 1832 Then personally appeared the above signed Joshua Gamage, and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed before me Judah Dana Just. Peace

STATE OF MAINE.
OXFORD COUNTY, ss.
I, RUFUS KING GOODENOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that Pridah Lanna
whose genuine signature is annexed to the foregoing Deposition of Elaine Joshua Gamage is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county of Oxford.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this thirteenth day of September in the year A. D. 1832
R. King Goodenow
{ Clerk of Oxford County Courts.

THE ABBOTT OLD ORCHARD, MAINE
Bureau of Pensions. Revolutionary War Record Section.
Gentlemen.
Could I trouble you for a copy of the pension application of Isaac Abbott, Oxford County, Maine, granted a pension from July 27 th 1833 aged 72: and of Ebenezer Fessenden, Oxford County Maine, granted a pension from April 2 nd 1833, aged 77. And when & to whom please was the last pension payment made in each case.
Very Truly yours.
January 30 th (Mrs.) 1925 Minnie Abbott Main

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Fessenden, John GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 4166 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Feb. 27, 1790 To Theodosius Fowler
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.